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Art & Poster Contest
Theme:
The Making of the Constitution:
Debate, Compromise, Adoption and Signing.
Essay Contest
Grades 3-5 Theme:
In the summer of 1787, fifty-five of the "best and brightest" leaders came together to write a new plan of government for the United States. We call them our nation's Founding Fathers.
Which Founding Father do you believe contributed the most to our U.S. Constitution? Why? (Founding Fathers listed below)
Grades 6-12 Theme:
The Making of the Constitution for the Purpose of Promoting the Common Good.
Founding Fathers
Connecticut
Oliver Ellsworth
William Samuel Johnson
Roger Sherman
Delaware
Richard Bassett
Gunning Bedford, Jr.
Jacob Broom
John Dickinson
George Read
Georgia
Abraham Baldwin
William Few
William Houston
William Pierce
Maryland
Daniel Carroll
Luther Martin
James McHenry
John F. Mercer
Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer
Massachusetts
Elbridge Gerry
Nathaniel Gorham
Rufus King
Caleb Strong
New Hampshire
Nicholas Gilman
John Langdon
New Jersey
David Brearly
Jonathan Dayton
William C. Houston
William Livingston
William Paterson
New York
Alexander Hamilton
John Lansing, JR.
Robert Yates
North Carolina
William Blount
William Davie
Richard Dobbs Spaight
Alexander Martin
Hugh Williamson
Pennsylvania
George Clymer
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Fitzsimons
Jared Ingersoll
Thomas Mifflin
Gouverneur Morris
Robert Morris
South Carolina
Pierce Butler
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Charles Pinckney
John Rutledge
Virginia
John Blair
James Madison Jr.
George Mason
James McClurg
Edmund Randolph
George Wythe